JIP COLLINS AND THE BOYS FROM BROOKLYN. Page 34.
"If you ain't scared, what are you makin' a row 'bout now? We 'greed to put a fire here so's to singe Seth an' Dan a little."
"Yes, I agreed to that much; but I don't count on killing 'em."
"Neither do I."
"But how can you help it if you build the fire right close to the door, when there's no other way for 'em to get out?"
"Don't you s'pose they've got sense enough to wake up before the thing gets too far along?"
"I've heard of folks bein' smothered to death while they was asleep, an' I ain't in this game if that's the way you're goin' to work it."
"Then back out if you're scared, an' I'll do it."